摘要:
A signal detecting device includes: a semiconductor substrate; a near-field light generating section that is provided on the semiconductor substrate and generates near-field light near an interface with the semiconductor substrate; a light source that outputs light having wavelength corresponding to photon energy about a half as large as band-gap energy of a material of the semiconductor substrate; and a current detecting unit that detects a photocurrent generated in the semiconductor substrate when the near-field light is generated.
摘要:
A method for manufacturing a magneto-optical recording medium in which reading of recorded information is performed through domain wall displacement in a reproduction layer is provided, in which magnetic separation of groove side-wall portions is performed more reliably; as a result a magneto-optical recording medium with satisfactory recording and reproduction characteristics can be provided. The method is to manufacture a magneto-optical recording medium in which on a substrate 1 having grooves 12 at least a reproduction layer and a recording layer, each of which is formed of magnetic layers, are deposited and recorded information is reproduced through domain wall displacement in the reproduction layer; and the method includes a first annealing process in which, after depositing at least the reproduction layer and recording layer on the substrate 1 on which are formed lands 11 and grooves 12, only side-wall portions 13 between adjacent lands 11 and grooves 12 are irradiated with laser light L1, and a second magnetization annealing process in which regions including adjacent side-wall portions 13 and lands between side-wall portions 13 are irradiated with laser light L2 having a spot diameter greater than the spot diameter of the laser light in the first annealing process, while applying an external magnetic field Hex.
摘要:
An optical recording medium is provided which has a substrate and a signal recording layer provided on the substrate and in which an information signal is recorded in the form of microscopic pits. A light beam is focused on the signal recording layer and some change of the light beam carried by a return light from the signal recording layer is detected to read the information signal recorded on the signal recording layer. The optical recording medium has a diameter of 65 mm or less and a thickness of 0.4 to 0.7 mm. An information signal recording area extends outwardly from a radial position of 12.5 mm or less from the center of the medium. The ratio in area between the information signal recording area and non-signal recording area is 3.4 or more. The storage capacity of this medium is 2 gigabytes or more. The optical recording medium has formed at the center thereof a center hole around which an annular table-abutment convexing to one side of the medium is formed. A magnetic-clamping hub is installed in the center hole and thus the medium is magnetically clamped to a rotation driving mechanism of an optical recording and/or reproducing apparatus. The compactness and high density of recording of the optical recording medium will contribute greatly to a further compact structure of a recording and/or reproducing apparatus in which the medium is to be used.
摘要:
A laser beam from an LD 11 is irradiated onto a magnetooptic disk 33 by a predetermined power for a heat treatment. After the heat treatment, the laser beam of a power smaller than the power upon heat treatment is irradiated to the heat-treated area. Reflection light of the laser beam of the small power enters photodetectors 24 and 26 and reflection light amounts of a P wave and an S wave are detected, respectively. A differential detecting circuit 27 detects a level of a magnetooptic signal corresponding to the heat-treated area on the basis of the reflection light amounts of the P wave and the S wave. A controller 28 determines whether or not the magnetooptic signal level detected by the differential detecting circuit 28 lies within a permissible range. If it is out of the range, the power of the laser beam to execute the heat treatment is adjusted and the process of a magnetooptic disk is stopped or a message showing such a fact is displayed, or the like.
摘要:
A magneto-optical disc 1 has a TOC area in which the cumulative recordable data volume or the cumulative recordable time is preformatted, and a user TOC area in which the cumulative recorded data volume or the cumulative recorded time is preformatted. When recording audio data, a system controller 17 restricts the volume of recording data or the recording time based on the cumulative recordable data volume, the cumulative recordable time, cumulative recorded data volume, the cumulative recorded time or the data compression factor, while causing an updated cumulative recorded data or an updated cumulative recorded time to be recorded. Restrictions of the recording may be performed based on the cumulative recorded data volume or the cumulative recorded time. A prepaid system may be realized by charging the fee conforming to the cumulative recordable data volume or the cumulative recordable time at the time of sale of the disc.
摘要:
An optical pickup device for an information recording and/or reproducing apparatus in which fluctuations in polarization film characteristics due to the variable incident angles of the light beam to the beam splitter may be reduced to prevent C/N characteristics from being lowered. The optical pickup device includes an objective lens 3 for converging a light beam L from a laser light source 1 to a magneto-optical disc 2, a beam splitter 8 arranged on a light path between the laser light source 1 and the objective lens 3 for guiding a return laser light beam Lr from the disc to outside of the light path, and a photodetector 4 for detecting the return light beam Lr guided by the beam splitter 8 to outside of the light path. The beam splitter 8 is arranged at a portion in the light path between the laser light source 1 and the objective lens 3 in which the light beam L from the laser light source 1 is a divergent light beam. The multi-layered dielectric film 12 of the beam splitter 8 has polarization film characteristics of reflecting 65% of S-polarized light components and 35% of the P-polarized light components of the light beam L and the return light beam Lr incident on the multi-layered dielectric film 12.
摘要:
An optical head applies a laser beam to a region of the magnetooptical disc, and a magnetic head applies a magnetic field to the region of the magnetooptical disc while the laser beam is being applied thereto, thereby to record information in the region. The optical and magnetic heads are interconnected by a link mechanism so that they are movable in unison with each other radially with respect to the magnetooptical disc. An electromagnetic shield is disposed around the magnetic head for blocking magnetic and electric fields parallel to the magnetooptical disc.
摘要:
There is provided a disc recording apparatus for recording digital data by an optical unit in such a manner that time compressed digital data are arranged into a plurality of clusters at an interval of a predetermined number of sectors, a cluster-linking sector having a length longer than an interleaving length is provided at each linking part of each cluster, and the digital data are subsequently interleaved and recorded on a disc-shaped recording medium so that interleaving at the time of data recording on the cluster-by-cluster basis is within the range of the cluster-linking sector. There is also provided a disc reproducing apparatus for reproducing digital data by an optical unit in which playback data are obtained by reproducing record data recorded on a disc-shaped recording medium in such a manner that a cluster-linking sector longer than an interleaving length is provided in a linking section of each cluster composed of a predetermined number of sectors, the resulting data is interleaved and recorded on the disc-shaped recording medium, and the playback data are deinterleaved and freed or the cluster-linking sectors so as to be stored transiently in a storage unit. Playback data are written in the storage unit when the data volume of playback data stored in the storage unit becomes smaller than a predetermined volume to maintain a readout space in the storage unit which is in excess of the predetermined data volume. In this manner, data may be read out continuously from the storage unit at a predetermined rate without interrupting the reproducing operation at the cluster-linking sector of the data recorded on the medium.
摘要:
An error correction encoding apparatus for processing input data with an encoding for error correction, including first delay circuitry for applying differing delay to data words to convert input data in a first array state into data words in a second array state, a first error correction encoder for generating first check words from data words in the second array state, second delay circuitry for applying differing delay to the data words in the second array state and the first check words to generate data words and check words in a third array state, and a second error correction encoder for generating second check words from the data words and the check words in the third array state, with the delays applied by the first and second delay circuitry set so that the array states of the data words in the first and the third array states are the same. In other embodiments, the invention is an error correction decoding apparatus including a first error correction decoder for processing input data words and check words in a third array state by error correction by a second error correction code using a second check word series, first delay circuitry for applying differing delay to the corrected data words and check words from the first error correction decoder to generate data words in a second array state and first check words, a second error correcting decoder for error-correcting the data words in the second array state by a first error correction code using the first check words, and second delay circuitry for applying differing delay to the corrected data words from the second error correcting decoder to generate data words in a first array state.
摘要:
The present invention realizes the emission of a high-output short-pulse beam and a reduction in power consumption. A laser control unit (2) of a short-pulse light-source device (1) raises a gate pulse (PG) of a gate signal (SG) supplied to a power supply circuit (5) in such a manner that the gate pulse (PG) rises only for the duration of an extremely short pulse width (T) to include the rise time of a generated pulse (PL) of a pulse signal (SL) supplied to a driving circuit (6). In this way, necessary power can be supplied at the rise timing of the generated pulse (PL), and the power consumption (Pa) can be greatly reduced from the standard power consumption (Pb).